 Old School Nec Ready 9944, Can I get parts ?? |
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 Aug 4 2008, 02:56 AM
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Is this possible?? Can I put in a different hard drive/motherboard/memory from another manufacturer ?? Is the new NED Ready 9944 parts available anywhere?? This computer would be primarily used as a back up/web surfer. |
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Aug 4 2008, 05:48 AM
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arachibutyrophobia Group: BC Advisor Posts: 4,850 Joined: 4-March 05 From: Northern CA. Member No.: 13,532 |
You can replace the hdd, just make sure that it is a ATA (IDE) type. I couldn't find any reference to a maximum size drive, but if what I found is accurate that had a 20GB hdd when it was new, so you could probably get away with putting is something larger, like a 80GB hdd.
As for upgrading this computer, it is very old by today's standards. Personally, I wouldn't invest any more money into this, RAM is about the only thing I would invest in if you had to improve anything. It has a maximum capacity of 256MB of RAM. -------------------- Lord, may we please have a little more chlorine in the gene pool?
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Aug 4 2008, 07:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 3-December 07 Member No.: 174,207 |
QUOTE(dc3 @ Aug 4 2008, 06:48 AM)  You can replace the hdd, just make sure that it is a ATA (IDE) type. I couldn't find any reference to a maximum size drive, but if what I found is accurate that had a 20GB hdd when it was new, so you could probably get away with putting is something larger, like a 80GB hdd. As for upgrading this computer, it is very old by today's standards. Personally, I wouldn't invest any more money into this, RAM is about the only thing I would invest in if you had to improve anything. It has a maximum capacity of 256MB of RAM. Thanks for the info,dc3. Here's what I found for specs on it. NEC Ready 9944 Estimated Retail Price: $1,299 Intel Pentium III processor 450MHz, 96 MB memory, 10.2 GB hard drive, DVD drive, CD-RW drive and 56 Kbps-capable ITU V.90 modem. Does this change anything ?? |
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Aug 4 2008, 07:26 AM
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arachibutyrophobia Group: BC Advisor Posts: 4,850 Joined: 4-March 05 From: Northern CA. Member No.: 13,532 |
It does actually, because of the age of the machine and the size of the hdd, you may have a BIOS limitation on the size of the hdd that you can use.
Before you invest any money it that, look around as see what a hundred bucks will buy you in the way of a used computer. You should be able to find a much newer on for that price. And you would spend about that much replacing the hdd and upgrading your RAM. -------------------- Lord, may we please have a little more chlorine in the gene pool?
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